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THE  EAGLE  AND  THE  SHAMROCK, 


—OR   THE— 


Attitude  of  the  United  States 


-ON- 


Irish  Independence. 


ADDRESSED  TO  THE  INTELLIGENT  MIND  AND  LOYAL 
HEART  OF  GREAT  BRITAIN. 


FIAT  JUSTITIA,  RUAT  CCELUM. 


—  BY  — 


GEO.  AMBROSE  MCNEILL, 


—  OK  — 


NP^W  BRUNSWICK,  B.  N.  A. 

AT  TOLEDO.  OHIO,  I'.  S. 
Makch.  1««*J. 


NOTE.  **»»*»***r  Ooxnmunications 
may  be  addressed  to  the  author  of  this  pamphlet,  Lock 
Box  267,  London,  Ont.,  B.  N.  A. 


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.   TJIE   EAGLE   AND  THE  SHAMROCK: 


■OR  THE- 


ATTITUDE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


•  ON  ■ 


IRISH   INDEPENDENCE 


ADDRKHSKI)  TO  TIIK  INTKLI-IOKNT  MIND,  AND  LOYAL 
IIKAKT,  OF  liHKAT  BKITAIN. 


FIAT  JlfiTITIA,   Kl'AT  L'iELUM. 


There  are  many  persons  of  intelligence  and  rank 
in  Great  Britain  who  are  believers  in  a  inoat  dangerous 
fallacy ;  i.  e.j  American  sympathy  for  England.  And 
the  hour  has  come  when  the  light  of  truth.should  be 
thrown  upon  it.  England  in  her  struggle  to  subdue 
the  ever  restless  spirit  of  rebellion  in  Ireland  has  no 
sympathy  in  America,  The  people  of  the  United 
States  are  heart  and  soul  with  the  Irish,  and  with  the 
people  the  administration  dare  not  disagree.  America 
swarms  with  enemies  of  Great  Britain^  and  nowhere  in 
North  America — except  in  Her  Majesty's  Dominion — 
can  the  spirit  of  friendliness  be  found,  and  even  there 
the  emissaries  of  the  enemy  are  hard  at  worlc.  The 
press  of  the  United  States,  managed  on  the  great  Amer- 


lean  plan  of,  '*  will  it  pay,''  and  being  otherwise  thor- 
oughly prejudiced,  dare  not,  and  will  not  publish,  a 
word  reflecting  lo  the  slightest  degree  on  the  'Mrish 
cause,"  so  called,  and  so  believed  by  the;  masses.  Every- 
where the  cry,  "liberty  for  Ireland,"  is  heard;  on  every 
hand  flaming  posters  announce  the  mass  meetings  of 
the  Irish  National  League ;  in  every  large  city  of  Amer- 
ica their  meetings  are  presided  over,  and  addressed  by, 
prominent  American  citizens,  Sen*itors  and  Congress- 
men ;  Generals,  Doctors  and  Judges  swell  the  ranks 
of  the  Irish  League.  Hordes  of  Fenians  and  Hiberni- 
ans— Ribbon  men — parade  the  streets;  the  'Wearing 
o'  the  Green,"  and  "Erin  Ga  Bragh,"  are  heard  so 
fre([uently  that  they  seem  to  iiave  become  National 
airs.  Ah !  there  is  no  sympathy  here  for  England. 
There  cannot  be.  This  is  the  land  of  rebellion ;  the 
very  principles  of  this  government  were  conceived  and 
brought  forth  in  the  throes  of  revolution.  Here,  they 
hate  aristocracy.  The  standing  of  a  man  or  family 
among  them  is  based  entirely  on  irum.ey;  tlie  rag  picker 
in  the  street  may,  should  he  sudtlenly  find  wealth,  be- 
come a  distinguished  member  of  society,  there  are  no 
blood  qualifications  recognized  whatever,  they  have  no 
pride  of  ancestry  here;  for  the  ancestry  of  the  first 
families  does  not  antedate  the  steerage  of  the  May 
Flower.*  They  are  opposed  to  all  hereditary  titles  and 
the  law  of  primogeniture;  there  are  no  established 
families  amongst  them,  Mr.  Jonathan  builds  a  man- 
sion to-day,  dies  to-morrow,  and  his  son  sells  tlie  prop- 
erty and  "go's  west."    The  spirit  of  socialism  ])ervades 

'^The  lauding  of  the  May  Flower  at  Plymouth  Rock,  Massachusetts,  Itj'JO, 


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all  things — Society,  Church,  State.  Religion  has  become 
auxilliary  to  the  great  scheme  of  vumeif  inakiiKj;  the 
(yMergy  like  the  labor  organizations  frecjuently  "strike 
for  higher  wages,"  the  standing  of  a  clergyman  is  rated 


by  the  amount  of  salary  he  can  demaml.  Society  is  in 
a  fearful  state  of  degeneracy  :  morality,  virtue  and 
religion  is  fast  disappearing  in  the  mighty  maelstrom 
of  vice  and  Atheism.  Political  corru|»tion  stamps  every 
administration  no  matter  which  party  is  in  power.  The 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  is  in  its  self  the  em- 
bodiment of  Socialism  ;  it  recognizes  no  su|>erior  but 
God  and  it  pays  but  slight  tribute  to  Him.  "A  gov- 
ernment for  the  people  and.  by  the  |)eople."  is  but 
little  in  advance  of  Anarchy.  The  rij^fht  of  universal 
franchise  is  but  a  weaj)on  placed  in  the  hand  of  igno- 
rance to  strike  back  at  the  power  that  gave  it,  and 
although  the  American  voter  hoastn  of  his  liberty  he 
is  not  altogether  free,  for  the  Electoral  college  plucks 
the  plums  from  his  pie  and  leaves  but  the  crust  for  him 
to  enjoy.  C^  there  be  sympathy  for  England  in  such 
an  atmosphere^  No  I  Can  there  be  sympathy  for 
religion,  for  pure  and  refined  society,  or  for  a  noble  and 
strong  Government  like  that  of  Great  Britain  i  Never! 
With  whom  or  what  does  such  a  j)eople — such  a  Nation 
— sympathize  ?  I  will  tell  you,  with  Fenians.  Socialists, 
Nihilists  and  the  bloody  red  commune  of  sin-cursed 
France.  Like  Socialism  itself.  Republicanism  is  strung 
together  with  the  warp  and  woof  of  inconsistency. 
Whilst  the  Federal  Congress  at  Washington  is  fash- 
ioned after  England's  Parliament,  a  very  large  majority 
of  Americans  favor  the  abolishment  of  the  House  of 


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Lords,  but  do  not  for  a  momunt  entertain  the  idea  ol' 
aboliKiiing  the  United  States  Senate ;  and  it  was  the 
unmistakable  echo  of  that  Henthnent  uttered  in  the 
Commons,  a  short  time  ago  by  tluit,  mephltia proletarius 
member,  and  editor  of  a  pseudonymous  LontUiU  Jour- 
nal. The  following  quotation  from  the  "New  York 
Herald,"  of  March  8th,  1880,  verifies  the  statement. 
"  The  stern  facts  are  that  just  as  Lincoln  aroused  the 
Democrats  in  1801  from  their  Hourbon  slumbers,  the 
Tories  of  1885  yet  dreaming  that  they  live  in  the  times 
of  Spencer  i'erceval  or  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  are 
being  awakened  by  Parnell,  Gladstone  ami  a  Commons 
well  leavened  with  American  rather  than  French  de- 
mocracy." And  this  is  but  a  mild  example  of  the  tone 
of  the  American  Press;  but  it  shows  that  the  infamous 
motion  of  the  "  Mephitis  proUtarius^-'  member,  and 
American  antif withy  for  England,  are  kindred  spots  on 
the  same  reptile.  The  diplomatic  mind  may  ([uestion 
the  propriety  of  this  statement  at  tiiis  time,  but  I 
consider  it  due  the  loyal  subject  of  Great  Britain  that 
he  should  know  how  intensely  he  is  disliked  by  Amer- 
icans. Here  an  English  gentleman  is  called  a  "snob,'* 
and  an  honest  mechanic,  ''an  ignorant  Johnny  Hull." 
Hatred  for  the  British,  and  a  natural  tendency  to  so- 
cialism, is  one  of  the  secrets  of  America's  sympathy  for 
the  Irish.  The  American  people  cry  out  with  the 
Land-leaguers  and  the  Socialists — "  Down*  with  land- 
lordism in  Ireland,"  and  they  are  as  one  voice  with  the 
Irish  on  the  question  of  Ireland  seceding  from  the 
Union  of  Great  Britain,  they  seem  to  forget  or  disre- 
gard the  fact  that,  but  a  little  more  than  two  decades 


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have  paHsed  Hin(M3  they  had  a  bittiT  Htru|^rgle  uinongHt 
theiTiHelves  against  KoceHsion,  and  in  the  agonies  of 
that  struggle  they  showed  tlieir  inconsistciujy  in  accus- 
ing Kn<rhmd  of  aiding  and  al)olting  the  Southern  Con- 
federacy :  which  was  a  false  charge  hase<l  on  tlie  fact 
that,  Soutliern  vessels  had  the  same  ingress  and  egress 
to  all  Knglish  ports,  and  transacte<l  husinc^ss  with  Eng- 
lishmen, as  vessels  from  the  Northern  States.  A  mat- 
ter in  which  Great  Britain— true  in  her  allegiance  to 
the  law  of  neutrality — did  not  discriminattj,  not-with- 
standing  the  sul>se(|uent  Alabanui  claims  case  and  tlie 
result  of  the  Geneva  Tribunal.  I»ut  Iuav  different  the 
attitude  of  the  I'nited  States:  perfidious  in  the  ex- 
treme— look  at  the  conduct  of  the  American  govern- 
ment in  the  Canadian  fisheries  treaties,  and  its  present, 
utter  indifference  toward  the  organization  of  the  ene- 
mies of  Great  I»ritain  throughout  the  Tnited  States. 
Startling  as  it  is — I  have  reasons  for  believing — I  have 
heard  the  Irish  leadei*s  in  America  assert  it  manv  times 
that,  when  thejivHi  gmi  ix  finul  in  Ireland  for  indepen- 
dence^ aimnltaneonsly  vith  it  will  he  heard  the  rattle  of 
musketry  all  along  the  frwdicr  (f  the  Daminiim  of  Can- 
ada. Fellow  subjects  of  Great  Britain  I  Can  you  have 
faith  in  that  government  wfio,  whilst  professing 
friendship  for  Kngland.  is  utterly  indiffeient  for  Her 
welfare  f  Can  vou  call  that  Nation  a  friend  whose 
Press  throughout  its  whole  domain  refuse  to  publish  a 
line  containing  the  least  sentiment  of  English  sym])athy, 
whilst  it  devotes  cohimns  to  the  ^'"h-isk  Caum^'"i  Can 
you  say  there  is  sympathy  for  England  in  a  country 
where,  shouK'  one  address  an  audience  advocating  the 


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cause  of  England,  he  would  be  hissed  off  the  platform ; 
or  where  the  author  of  a  pamphlet  containing  sentiments 
of  loyalty  to  Old  Britannia  would  be  the  recipient  of 
threats  of  violence '{  You  answer,  No !  There  is  no  sym- 
pathy for  England  in  that  country  :  Well  may  you  say 
that,  for  by  the  honor  of  a  loyal  heart  I  swear  that  the 
United  States  of  America  is  that  country  !  People  of 
England ;  You  do  not  know,  situated  as  you  are  more 
than  three  thousand  miles  away,  how  intently  the 
American  Nation  watches  the  political  sky  of  Great 
Britain  ;  how  every  speech  and  sentiment  of  the  Nation- 
alist is  applauded,  whilst  the  sentiment  of  the  Loy- 
alist, whether  Liberal  or  Tory,  Protestant  or  Roman 
Catholic,  is  received  with  the  spirit  of  utter- 
most indifference.  The  Irish  squad  in  the  House  of 
Commons  and  their  colleagues  in  Ireland  are  looked 
upon  by  the  American  citizen  as  the  brave  leaders  of  a 
patient  people.  Here  the  ''^th  of  July."  has  lost  pres- 
tige, whilst  the  "  17th  of  March."  is  fast  becoming  a 
glorious  day  ;  and  the  memory  of  such  pseudo-patriots 
as  Robert  Emmet,  Thomas  Paine  and  George  Wash- 
ington, is  fondly  cherished.  Here  the  Irish  question 
has  become  almost  the  all  absorbing  question  of  the 
day.  It  is  the  common  belief  that  the  Empire  of 
Great  Britain  and  its  Aristocracy  is  in  a  state  of  dis- 
integr;ation  and  rapid  decay.  Could  you  in  England 
have  witnessed  the  eagerness  with  which  the  people 
here  sought  those  numbers  of  the  "  Pall  Mall  Gazette" 
containing  editor  Stead's  obscenity,  and  have  heard 
the  sneers  at  English  aristocracy,  you  would  have 
blushed  at  the  thought  that  you  ever — for  one  moment — 


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entertained  the  idea  that  the  peo])le  of  tlie  United  States 
have  any  sympathy  for  Ent^land.  Here  the  Royal 
family  of  England  is  only  spoken  ofc  in  terms  of  disre- 
spect, and  the  man  who  dares  to  defend  the  honor  of 
their  name  is  scorned;  and  all  this  mind  you,  not  by 
Irishmen  ahjne,  hut  hy  natlm  horn  AmerlednH.  (\ 
The  atmosphere  of  American  freedom  is  rife  with  the 
foul  breath  of  socialism.  Nihilists  from  Russia,  (Jom- 
munists  from  France,  Fenians  from  Ireland,  and,  with 
sorrow  I  confess  it,  a  few  hotheads  from  Scotland-  to 
whom  I  had  the  opportunity  some  time  since  to  ad- 
minister a  go(Kl  rebuke,  in  a  re))ly  to  a  speech  by  one 
Duncan  MacGreo-i^r,  befon^  the  Scottish  Land  League 
of  America,  at  (Chicago.  Here  this  great  horde  of  the 
enemies  of  Great  Britain  and  (tf  civilization,  untnolested 
l)y  the  o'overnment,  and  fostered  and  encoura<i:ed  bv 
the  sympathy  of  the  people  are  fast  (leveloj)ing  into  a 
well  organized  ii\\(\  mighty  el enie at  ih[\ii\\vQi\(\y  menaces 
every  government  under  the  sun.  Oh  I  The  blindness 
of  this  American  nation;  can  they  not  see  that  M^/>o?/vi 
government  is  also  in  jeopardy  by  the  presence  of  these 
canker  worms  of  anarchy  t  God  forbid  that  I  should  be 
the  man  ever  to  malign  the  peoj)le  or  the  government 
of  the  United  States,  or  that  I  should  cause  even  one 
person,  high  or  low,  to  entertain  undue  predjndice 
against  the  American  nation  ;  but  I  cannot  stand  idly 
by — although  in  the  enemy's  country — and  hear  old 
r>rittania  damned  and  her  good  name  traduced  with- 
out lifting  my  voice  in  protestation  against  the  vile 
and  pernicious  assumption. 
I  feel  that  it  is  my  bounden  "duty — as  far  as  in  me 


10 


i'll 


lies — as  a  loyal  subject  of  Great  Britain,  to  admonisn 
you  who  may  perchance,  have  been  mislead  into  placing 
confidence  in  a  da^erous  fallacy  Dangerous  because, 
whilst  the  professed  friend  of  Great  Britain,  the 
United  States  gives  protection  to  Her  enemies  to 
(Organize  against  her.  I  am  aware  that  our  Gov- 
ernment has  produced  the  greatest  diplomatists  of 
the  world,  and  that  she  is  abundantly  able  to 
protect  herself  the  world  over,  but  it  is  also  pos- 
sible that  whilst — in  such  a  precarious  situation  as 
a  threatened  Irish  rebellion,  abetted  hy  American  sym- 
pathy, diplomacy  may  apply  the  soothing  balms  of 
peace  without,  whilst  the  fires  of  discontent  are  wildly 
raging  within,  perchance,  spon  to  burst  forth  in  all  the 
fury  of  a  thoroughly  organized  and  violent  revolution. 
I  have  unlimited  confidence  in  the  ability  and  sagacity 
of  a  loyal  British  ministry  to  grapple  any  emergency, 
and  I  trust  I  am  not  so  presumptuous  as  to  pit  my 
humble  opinion  against  the  wisdom  and  statesmanship 
of  Her  Majesty's  government  in  affairs  of  an  interna- 
tional nature,  but  this  is  a  case  which  it  does  not  require 
a  Diplomat,  nor  a  Statesman  to  discern.  Here  is  one  in 
the  enemy's  camp  ;  he  hears  the  steady  tramp  of  troops 
pressing  on  to  the  front,  he  hears  the  command,  "For- 
ward! and  the  battle  cry  of,  Ireland  I"  The  bugle- 
call  and  roll  of  drum,  and  the  clang  of  arms  and  clat- 
ter of  hoofs  all  remind  him  that  battle  is  imminent;  he 
needs  not  a  courier  to  tell  him,  for  the  private  in  the 
ranks,  is  as  sure  of  approaching  carnage  as  the  General 
officer  in  command.  Thus  it  is  with  me ;  I  am  in  the 
enemy's  camp,  and  th^  unmistakable  activity  and  pre- 


n 

paration  for  a  coming  struggle  goes  on  around  me,  and 
whilst  within  ray  breast  there  is  that  assurance  that 
the  enemy  will  surely  march  on  to  a  bloody  defeat ; 
there  is  an  anxiety  in  my  heart  lest  my  friends  be 
caught  ^a,pping  on  their  arms,  not  dreaming  that  the 
enemy  is  near  and  will  attack  them  in  the  hour  of  un- 
expectancy .  O  !  What  should  I  do  ?  Would  to  God 
1  had  the  wings  of  the  eagle  that  1  might  swiftl}^  fly 
to  them  and  give  alarm,  or  that  I  might  seize  a  horse 
and  wildly  ride  into  their  lines  :'or  that  I  had  the  voice 
of  the  thunder  that  I  might  call  to  them  and  arouse  them 
from  their  danger;  but  I  can  have  none  of  these.  Shall  I 
sit  me  down  and  silentlv  wait  until  the  enemv  is  upon 

*/  ft/  I 

them  ?  No !  I  am  fleet  of  foot.  I  shall  steal  forth 
from  the  enemy's  lines  and,  like  the  stag  pursued, 
bound  away  to  them,  and  tho'  I  fall  dead  at  their 
feet  the  alarm  is  given  ;  the  line  is  formed,  the  enemy 
comes  to  fall  on  the  steel  and  lead  that  stands  ready 
to  receive  them.  And  thus  to  you,  dear  Old  Bri- 
tannia, I  fly  ;  Though  the  humblest  of  all  your  loyal- 
hearted  children,  I  bring  that  warning  from  the 
enemy's  camp  which,  should  perchance,  you  slumber 
on  the  arms  you  are  so  able  to  wield,  may  serve  in 
arousing  you  to  be  ready  wrrn  visor  down  and  blade 
FULL  BARE  to  rcceive  the  charge  of  the  enemy. 

To  the  loyal  heart  of  Great  Britain  I  appeal.  You 
mttst  open  your  eyes  to  the  fact  that,  whilst  Ireland, 
with  its  National  League  full  of  the  spirit  of  Papist 
higoiry  and  Protestant  hatred^  is  England's  most  bitter 
enemy,  the  Government  of  the  United  States  is  the 
friend  of  Ireland. 


12 

You  must  abandon  all  hope  of  having  the 
good  will  of  America.  There  are  nearly  sixty  millions 
of  people  in  the  United  States,  and  of  coursi  there  are 
those  who  are  friendly  toward  Great  Britain,  but  their 
numbers  are  few  ;  it  is  thoroughly  safe  to  say  that, 
they  are  less  than  one-hundredth  of  the  total  popula- 
tion. What  now  remains  for  the  loyal  heart  of  Eng- 
land is  Union,  harmony  and  strength.  There  should 
be  no  party  faction  upon  the  part  of  the  loyalist.  Liberal 
and  Tory,  one  and  aril,  must  stand  united  agamst 
t/te  common  enemy:  The  Irish  and  their  Ameri- 
can colleagues.  Once  again  I  say,  stand  uNrrED  like 
true  sons  worthy  the  proud  legacy  of  British  sub- 
ject-hood. Britannia  is  the  mother  of  the  noblest  civil- 
ization on  the  earth.  Her  throne  is  established  in 
the  sea,  and  the  Bible  is  the  solid  rock  of  her  founda- 
tion. There  in  majest}'^  and  glory  she  sits  ;  The  light  of 
the  world,  supported  by  the  mighty  arm  of  Him  who 
made  Her  Sovereign,  Queen  defender  of  the  faith, 
and  on  whose  escutcheon  of  fidelity  and  strength  is 
emblazoned  that  sublime  motto  of  her  trust,  "'Dieu  et 
man  droits 

'  GEORGE  AMBROSE   MCNEILL. 


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EILL. 


